trousser
French, verb/tʁu.se/
trousser is spelled T-R-O-U-S-S-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 22 million words in written French, the 150,781st most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Trousser is a French verb meaning “to fold up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Assembler ; lier”.
What does trousser mean in English?
verb
- 1
to fold up
- 2
to hitch up
- 3
to truss
- 4
to expedite
- 5
datedvulgarto stuff, to fuck
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Assembler ; lier. 2. Replier, relever ; il se dit le plus souvent en parlant des vêtements qu’on a sur soi. 3. Relever le vêtement, en parlant des personnes. 4. Lever les jupes d’une femme en vue d'un rapport sexuel.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of trousser
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- troussant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- troussé participle past
- trousse first-person indicative present
- trousses indicative present second-person
- troussons first-person indicative plural
- troussez indicative plural present
- troussent indicative plural present
- troussais first-person imperfect indicative
- troussait imperfect indicative singular
- troussions first-person imperfect indicative
- troussiez imperfect indicative plural
- troussaient imperfect indicative plural
- troussai first-person historic indicative
- troussas historic indicative past
- troussa historic indicative past
- troussâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce trousser?
- /tʁu.se/
- \tʁu.se\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is trousser in French?
trousser appears about once in every 22 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).